The Benedict Cumberbatch Sketch On SNL That Will Live Rent-Free In Fans' Minds For Years
Abigail Rogers
Updated on March 07, 2026
The sketch in question, simply titled "Chuck E. Cheese" after the popular children's pizza palace, stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Bowen Yang as Reflection Denied, a British new wave band whose heyday seems to have been in 1983. Due to some technical problems (and the fact that the manager of this particular Chuck E. Cheese is a big fan), they've been called in to substitute for Chuck E. and the Pizza Time Band. That's just the setup. The real brilliance of the sketch comes from the absurdly catchy melody of Reflection Denied's hastily assembled and age-inappropriate ode to the peculiar charms and infinite abyss of Chuck E. Cheese — particularly the salad bar.
Cumberbatch fans should enjoy seeing him flex his musical muscles with lyrics like "Oh pizza pie in the pizza sky," a line that will almost certainly run through your head the next time you order pizza. And according to YouTube comments, even Cumberbatch skeptics appear to be on board with the sketch. "I never cared for Benedict Cumberbatch," said commenter Anton Becker, "but this has won me over." Meanwhile, John Locke wrote in to say, "I would take my kids to chuck and cheese every weekend if these guys existed," while OneJumpFromEden declared, "[I] was extremely unsure of a skit about chuck e cheese, but this got more legendary by the second."